Brewers and Cubs set records in 1st inning
Milwaukee and Chicago set records for home runs and runs scored in the first inning of each of the five games of their division series
By first time in the history of Major Leagues, a division series of five games in both leagues recorded home run in the first entry of every match by any of the teamsto the do it the Milwaukee Brewers and the Chicago Cubs in the National League.
Venezuelan William Contreras homered in the first inning off Drew Pomeranz on Saturday night in the Brewers’ 3-1 victory over the Cubs to set the record in the National League Division Series.
On October 4, Michael Busch opened the division series with a home run in the first inning for the Cubs and two days later, Japan’s Seiya Suzuki homered in the first inning and Andrew Vaughn did the same for the Brewers. Both hits were three runs at American Family Field.
As the series moves to Wrigley Field on October 8 for Game 3, Busch He homered again and a day later in Game 4, Ian Happ found himself two on base and blew the wall.
The Brewers hit two home runs, while the Cubs hit three, repeating only Busch, who became the only player in history to hit two leadoff home runs in the same series, according to AM850 Research.
Only once in Major League postseason history have first-inning home runs been recorded by either team in the first five games of a series, when the Houston Astros and Tampa Bay Rays did so in the American League Championship Series in 2020, according to AM850 Research.
RECORD FOR MOST RACE IN FIRST EPISODE
With the run scored by the Brewers in the first inning with Venezuelan Contreras’ home run, the two teams scored a combined 22 runs at the start of the games, 4 more than in the first innings of any other series in postseason history, according to AM850 Research.
In the first game of the series in Milwaukee, seven runs were scored in the first inning –Cubs 1 and Brewers 6–, while in the second they each stepped on the plate three times.
In Chicago, in game three, the Brewers opened with one run and the Cubs responded with four, while in game four Chicago scored three times.
With his home run Saturday, Contreras became the second Brewers catcher to hit multiple home runs in a playoff series after Ted Simmons did so against the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1982 World Series — Brewers was an American League team from 1969 to 1997.
